The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance CultureAn outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge. |
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... Vesalian science ) , but instead the unknowable quality of the body's own motions . It is the fluid processes ( literally the movement of fluids ) which offer the clearest challenge to human certainty : Knowst thou but how the stone ...
... Vesalian body as opposed to the later invention of the Harveian or Cartesian body . Guiding the followers of Vesalius was the belief that the human body expressed in miniature the divine workmanship of God , and that its form ...
... Vesalian gesture of ownership is also a gesture of revelation . The right hand opens the woman's body to the gaze of all who care to see . Like Donne's roving hands , the roving hands of the anatomist have opened the body's cavities and ...
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Contents
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THE BODY IN THE THEATRE OF DESIRE | 39 |
INSIDE | 54 |
SACRED ANATOMY AND THE ORDER OF REPRESENTATION | 85 |
THE UNCANNY BODY | 141 |
DISSECTING PEOPLE | 183 |
ROYAL SCIENCE | 230 |
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The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday Limited preview - 1995 |
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The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday No preview available - 1995 |